Bachir Yellès

Bachir Yellès studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Graduate School of Fine Arts of Algiers. Training under Nicolas Untersteller and Eugène Narbonne is recorded. The recorded working language is Arabic. The authority associates the name with Orientalist painting. Paul Cézanne and Art of Al-Andalus are recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers. Positions recorded include director.

• Name — Bachir Yellès • Born — 12 September 1921 • Birthplace — Tlemcen, Algeria • Died — 16 August 2022 • Place of death — Algiers, Algeria • Education — * School of Fine Arts, Algiers • École des Beaux-Arts, Paris • Occupation — Painter • Known for — Director of the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts d'Alger (1960–1980) • Style — Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism

Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, then the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served as a director of the École supérieur des Beaux Arts d'Alger of Algiers, between the years 1960 and 1980. In his works, he continued using local themes but also experimented with Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism. Yellès turned 100 in September 2021. He died in Algiers on 16 August 2022. • Illustration — Andalusian musicians in Tlemcen by Bachir Yellès

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1921 at Tlemcen. Yellès died in 2022 at Algiers. Institutional cataloguing adds that bachir Yellès is recorded at birth as pp.